Statement
Suppose
are subgroups of a group
. Then, the Commutator of two subgroups (?)
is a normal subgroup of the Join of subgroups (?)
.
Facts used
- Subgroup normalizes its commutator with any subset: If
is a subgroup and
is a subset of
, then
normalizes the following subgroup:
Here,
is the commutator of the two elements.
Proof
Given: Two subgroups
.
To prove:
.
Proof: By fact (1),
normalizes
, which is the same as
. Also,
normalizes
. Thus, the normalizer of
in
contains both
and
, hence it contains
, proving that
is normal in
.